Barend Frenk, a son of Salomon Frenk and Grietje Dasberg, married 15 June 1910 in Rotterdam Rosetta Kadiks, a daughter of Mozes Kadiks and Roosje Neetjer. Both were born in Rotterdam, Barend on 21 March 1881 and Rosetta on 19 April 1878. Barend earned a living as rag dealer and lived with his wife on various addresses in Rotterdam, till he moved in 1938 with his wife and already three children to Kraaipanstraat 6 in Amsterdam.
The three children of Barend and Rosetta were Salomon, who was born in Rotterdam on 18 July 1911; Mozes, who was born in Rotterdam on 15 April 1914 and the last one was Keetje, who was born there on 17 February 1917.
Salomon Frenk was a colporteur and sales representative, remained unmarried and emerged in July 1945 in the Eerste Boerhaavestraat 20 1st floor in Amsterdam. He survived the war.
Mozes was a teacher in Rotterdam, where he was married to the non-Jewish Suzanna Capitein. Due to his mixed-marriage he survived the war.
Keetje Frenk, a seamstress, always named Kitty, married in July 1942 Hartog Vos in Amsterdam. Both were arrested by the Germans. In the end Hartog Vos lost his life somewhere in Central Germany on 4 February 1945. Keetje however was deported from concentration camp Vught to Auschwitz but survived the Holocaust with other prisoners of the so-called Philips group. She was liberated by the Swedish Red Cross and was repatriated from Sweden to Holland in September 1945. In 1947 she got remarried and in 1952 she emigrated to New York.
Barend Frenk and Rosetta Frenk-Kadiks were carried off on 25 February 1943 to Westerbork were they ended up in barrack 61. On 2 March, they were both deported with the 1st transport, still in passenger cars, from Westerbork to Sobibor where they both were immediately killed in the gas chambers there upon arrival there on 5 March 1943.
Sources include the City Archive of Roterdam, family registration cards of Barend Frenk and Mozes Frenk; wedding certificate of Rotterdam for Frenk/Kadiks; the City Archive of Amsterdam, archive cards of Barend Frenk,Keetje Frenk and of Salomon Frenk; the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Barend Frenk, Rosetta Frenk-Kadiks, Salomon Frenk, Mozes Frenk en Keetje Frenk and the website Jodenstransporten vanuit Nederland.nl.